Two respected Mexican newspapers have reported
that Russell Crowe will shoot his next movie
at Chichen Itza.
The Australian actor will join Italian actress
Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Triology, Shoot ‘Em
Up), according to the man who wrote the screenplay,
Alberto Haggar Gonzales. The film, “2012,
la Profecía de la Serpiente” (”2012:
The Prophecy of the Serpent”) will begin
shooting later this year for a 2009 release.
According to El Financiero, Haggar Gonzales
says the plot of the film revolves around the
legacy of the Maya world in 2012 and will be
set in Yucatan. The year marks the end of time
for the human race, which will be forced to decide
whether it should assume the challenge of embracing
spirituality or perish.
El Financiero caught up with Haggar Gonzales
at the government offices of the state of Yucatan
in Merida. And just who is the scriptwriter?
He is an archaeoastronomer who speaks to New
Age groups interested in the Maya calendar, which
runs out on Dec. 21, 2012. While he has never
had a screenplay produced, he does have some
experience in front of the camera. Below is a
snippet from a presentation he gave last year
to “Earth Spirit Medicine,” based
in New Hampshire:
If you stuck through to the end of the video,
you would have seen a crystal skull. Coincidentally,
this will be the subject of the new Indiana Jones
movie that comes out this summer.
If Haggar Gonzales’s claim is true, this
would be the third film dealing with 2012 in
some form of production. Roland Emmerich, the
director of “Independence Day,” recently
sold to Sony pictures a project he has been developing
for a big-budget movie about 2012. Another film
company based in Russell Crowe’s home country
of Australia is working on a 2012 movie called “The
Dark Rift.”
